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Post by dickens38 on Nov 6, 2020 1:42:37 GMT
Has anyone watched this? My daughter and I watched this last night and I, for one, was very disappointed. They've done a "Pale Horse" on this. My daughter asked if David and Dora got married, which if they had stuck to the actual novel she wouldn't have had to ask. As much as I admire Ben Whishaw, he was badly cast as Uriah Heep. In the Maggie Smith version, Heep made me cringe. Played by Nicholas Lyndhurst, he made my flesh creep. Imo most the cast was miscast. As for Peter Capaldi, why on earth didn't he keep his accent? He simply cannot 'do' a cockney accent! He put me in mind of Dick Van dyke in Mary Poppins.
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Post by mllemass on Nov 6, 2020 2:08:43 GMT
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Post by queenzod on Nov 6, 2020 2:14:39 GMT
That is one of the most British things ever - not saying a word whilst your coworker butchers your accent. 😂
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Post by dickens38 on Nov 6, 2020 23:51:05 GMT
That is one of the most British things ever - not saying a word whilst your coworker butchers your accent. 😂 Yes, I suppose it is, but I am afraid I would have said something. Believe me when I say it wasn't DVD's fault, but you could hear that he was American, as you can hear that PC is Scottish.😄
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Post by sgev1977 on Nov 7, 2020 1:30:32 GMT
I haven't watched David Copperfield but I just want to say that one of the best things of its director other movie, The Death of Stalin is that actors used their own accents for their real life historical characters. For example Stalin had a Cockney accent and Khrushchev was a working class New Yorker! It was hysterical!
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Post by queenzod on Nov 7, 2020 2:26:44 GMT
That movie slapped. I sat there with my jaw hanging open through the entire thing. So fabulous!
The other movie with questionable accents that cracked me up was The Man in the Iron Mask. One American accent, one English, one Irish and one, lone French accent in a movie that took place in France. 😂 they weren’t even *trying* to make it fit together!
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Post by queenzod on Nov 7, 2020 2:30:08 GMT
That is one of the most British things ever - not saying a word whilst your coworker butchers your accent. 😂 Yes, I suppose it is, but I am afraid I would have said something. Believe me when I say it wasn't DVD's fault, but you could hear that he was American, as you can hear that PC is Scottish.😄 Ha! I think that is the other British People response. Offhandedly say something truly cutting. 😂 one of my favorite movie lines was in the original Rebecca when Gladys Cooper, Maxim’s sister, meets the new wife and says in a throwaway manner, “I can see by how you dress you don’t care a whit what other people think.” (Or something like that). So perfect! Gladys Cooper is one of my favs. 🥰
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Post by dickens38 on Nov 8, 2020 3:17:02 GMT
I haven't watched David Copperfield but I just want to say that one of the best things of its director other movie, The Death of Stalin is that actors used their own accents for their real life historical characters. For example Stalin had a Cockney accent and Khrushchev was a working class New Yorker! It was hysterical! I saw this, and yes it was very funny. But then Armando Iannucci also created the think of it and directed In the Loop. Perhaps I missed something with DC? *scratches head*
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Post by dickens38 on Nov 8, 2020 3:22:32 GMT
That movie slapped. I sat there with my jaw hanging open through the entire thing. So fabulous! The other movie with questionable accents that cracked me up was The Man in the Iron Mask. One American accent, one English, one Irish and one, lone French accent in a movie that took place in France. 😂 they weren’t even *trying* to make it fit together! Slapped? Another new word? I shan't recognise my own language soon the way it's being mucked about.😖 I looked it up however *grins* it was amazing, amazingly awful.
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Post by queenzod on Nov 8, 2020 4:25:42 GMT
Yeah, I pick up my “kid” lingo on Twitter. I’m hep with all the young folks. 😂
Just so I’m clear - you think Death of Stalin was a bad movie? I loved it, it was so over the top and outrageous, but I can see how some people wouldn’t like it. It was pretty brutal.
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